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TABLE OF CONTENTS The Cross of Life ........................................................................................... 1 Part 1 ....................................................................................................................................1 Nodal Transit ...................................................................................................................................................... 1 The Cross of Life ............................................................................................................................................... 1 The Skeleton of the Knowledge ........................................................................................................... 3 The Rave Mandala ......................................................................................................................................... 3 The 32 Polarities .............................................................................................................................................. 4 The Binary of Life............................................................................................................................................ 5 The Neutrino Ocean ..................................................................................................................................... 5 Personality Sun: Filter of the Neutrino Ocean ............................................................................. 6 The Earth Transforms Light into Matter .......................................................................................... 7

Human Design Is Meant to be Lived ................................................................................................. 7 The Mind Cannot Chill Out ...................................................................................................................... 8 We Are a Mutation ........................................................................................................................................ 9 We Are a Binary Consciousness ........................................................................................................... 9 The Seven Centered Being and the Mind .................................................................................... 10 The Design Runs the Vehicle ............................................................................................................... 10 The Personality Is Not Important....................................................................................................... 10 We Are Designed to be Cognitive.......................................................................................................11 The Mind Is Dependent on the Form ...............................................................................................11 You Can’t Live in the World Through the Mind ..........................................................................11 Differentiated Expressions...................................................................................................................... 12 Inner Authority Is Not Mind.................................................................................................................... 12 You Can’t Trust the Mind ........................................................................................................................ 14 We Are Designed to be Attracted to Conditioning ............................................................... 14 Consciousness Has No Boundaries ................................................................................................... 15 We’re Here to Express Cognitive Intelligence ........................................................................... 16 We Have an Uranian Body ..................................................................................................................... 16 We Are in a Program ..................................................................................................................................17 What We Talk About Is Affected by the Transits ......................................................................17

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Inner and Outer Authority ..................................................................................................................... 18 Expressing Your Unique Truth ............................................................................................................ 19 Bonding Rooted in Consciousness................................................................................................... 19 Changing the Consciousness Field .................................................................................................. 19 PHS ...................................................................................................................................................................... 20 Many Steps in the Journey ..................................................................................................................... 21 The Need to be able to Run Your Own Life .................................................................................. 21 Human Design Is Not Spiritual ............................................................................................................ 21 We Have Lost Our Connection to Life ............................................................................................ 22

Part 2 ................................................................................................................................23 The Nodes ......................................................................................................................................................... 23 Nodes Are Positions ................................................................................................................................... 23 The Nodes Represent Our Journey on this Plane .................................................................. 24 The Design Nodes: Specific Environments ................................................................................ 24

Lao Tzu................................................................................................................................................................ 25 Environment Important After 30 Years of Age ......................................................................... 25 The Nodes Move Us Towards the Other ........................................................................................26 Environment Can Save Your Life .......................................................................................................26 The Mountain Environment..................................................................................................................26 Quality of Environment............................................................................................................................27 Awakening Is a Mechanical Process............................................................................................... 28

The Personality Node: Perspective .................................................................................................. 28 True Outer Authority: A Unique Perception ...............................................................................29 The Body Knows What to Do .............................................................................................................. 30 Every Design Is Perfect ........................................................................................................................... 30 The Body Is Your Temple ......................................................................................................................... 31 Our Lives Are Choiceless .......................................................................................................................... 31 Mind Is Not for Decision Making ........................................................................................................ 32 Do Without Doing ....................................................................................................................................... 32 The Passenger Has to be Trained ...................................................................................................... 33 The Mind Is Here to Watch and Filter ............................................................................................. 33 A Journey of Decades .............................................................................................................................. 34

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The Cross of Life Part 1 Hello to everybody, to all of you here and to all who are watching on Jovian Archive TV, welcome to you. Today I get away from my standup comedy routine, maybe, and enter into something that is at the very basis of Human Design, something that I think deserves an updated elaboration.

Nodal Transit But before I get into that, we had a very interesting experience yesterday. That is, yesterday when my lecture finished around 7:00, we had a transit. That transit was that the Node left the 30th Gate, 4th Line, better known as Burnout, which has been there for months. And all of you that have suffered, all of you that have watched things wilt on the vine, it’s over. What you have now is the aftermath, which is: Things are just as they are. This is acceptance day. So, we had a real frequency change yesterday, a major frequency change.

The Cross of Life In 1991 I did what was in fact the very first training that I ever did in Human Design. It was in February of 1991, in a village on this Island (Ibiza) know as San Miguel in a place known as S’ort. I had seven Spanish students, which is only appropriate since this all began here in this wonderful place. I didn’t know how to teach Human Design. I began with what I had been given, which I dubbed The Cross of Life. It was the way that I first introduced the knowledge. There are some of you who go back long enough with me now in this process who can remember that, The Cross of Life. In order to make that simple, so that you have an idea, with The Cross of Life you have the Sun above, you have the Earth below, the South Node to the past and the North Node to the future. And you form this (Cross)—it’s my Human Design blessing to all of you, I hope that your life is going to be entertaining, may you all be absolute, and on and on.

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Anyway, The Cross of Life. I didn’t know enough about the planets; I wasn’t an astrologer. I wasn’t somebody that had been educated in any of that. I had no pseudo-science education at all. At first it was a very difficult thing for me to understand how I was possibly going to be able to explain all of these things, because as you well know, I’ve been doing this for 21 years and I’m still explaining things. There is a lot of stuff to explain. I had to explain it to myself. That’s really the way it works. This is what I do every time I teach because I’m unconscious, so I have no idea what I’m going to say, and then I end up here and my mouth is going chatter, chatter, chatter, and my passenger is listening and going “Not bad.” So the only way that I ever figure out anything is that I have students. This is the way I figure things out. Without my students, I tell you, I’d still be sitting on a rock, stoned, staring at the sun, very happy. But nonetheless, my students changed my life. They also broadened all of this knowledge. Where I started all these years ago with The Cross of Life—I love irony, I’m a 5th Line being, irony is something that touches me—I find it incredibly ironic that after this, what is a huge intellectual journey that I have taken over these two decades, that I actually come back to

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where I started and think that’s the coolest thing, because The Cross of Life is the coolest thing.

The Skeleton of the Knowledge And I didn’t really get it. It took years and years for me to come back to that simple image of—it’s sort of like a skeleton in a way. Everything else is sort of just a kind of form. But that skeleton, that underlying thematic that is really us, if you really want to know something about yourself or something about the other, there is only one place you need to go. That is, you go into that Cross of Life because there is so much there. I only know that now. In the second Ibiza Event, I began to introduce substructure in a detailed way. In the last three years in the IHDS where I teach a lot, nine months a year, we have gone into what is really one of the deepest processes in understanding the underlying nature, the substructure that is there, that substructure that is there within the framework of The Cross of Life, within the framework of the Sun/Earth and the Nodes. They really are the whole story. Everything else is a nuance, nice stuff. This is a science and I have spent all this time teaching it because as a science everything has to be elaborated upon. There is unbelievable nuance that is available in this knowledge. But to get to the surface of things, to really touch what is the fundamental program in a being, all you need is to be able to grasp this Cross.

The Rave Mandala So let’s talk about the components for a moment because the components are interesting. We have two polarities. You don’t get to see it in this illustration, but I’m sure all of you are familiar with the Rave Mandala, the Wheel of Human Design. I suggest you place it in a position that while you’re sitting on the toilet, for example, it’s right there in front of you because it’s one of the most incredible things to ponder. For most human beings, by the way, that’s their pondering moments; just kidding, sort of. If you look at that Wheel, it’s an incredible piece of magic. The magic is in the symmetry and the symmetry is so beautiful. You have to look at it. You have

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to watch the way the hexagram shifts as they move, the way one thing is connected to the other, the way that whole Wheel is integrated into a holistic beautiful mechanism.

We’re going to have some fun this week, because we’re going to take a look at this mechanism when we take a look at the old Godhead and we see how that works, how the program is this incredible thing around us.

The 32 Polarities But look at the polarities. If you want to study Human Design, if you really want to understand Human Design, then you look at the 32 polarities, because this is really something. This is the magic of being in a binary program.

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When you’re looking at things opposite each other, look at the hexagrams, look at the chop, look at the way in which it is structured and what you’re looking at is a perfect mirror. As you move along in that Wheel, you have this perfection in the way in which everything is countered to its exact opposite.

The Binary of Life We live in a binary. We know there is this vast spectrum, yet at the same time it’s a line. You see the line when you draw the Cross. There is this line. And when you look at your Sun and your Earth and your Nodes, what you’re looking at are these two essential polarities. This is where everything is built. And because it’s a duality, because it’s a polarity, you get the darkness and the light. You get the this and the that. You get the endarkenment and the enlightenment. You get the fear and the glory. You get the ugly and the beautiful. You get everything because you’ve got the perfect binary. Forget about what the Lines say, there is everything in that.

The Neutrino Ocean

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So, we have the Sun above; the Sun is big business; old sol. Neutrinos—I can’t do an Ibiza Event without talking about neutrinos. They’re unbelievable when you think about it. Poetically for me, it’s always been the breath of a star. This is what they breathe out. We breathe out our stuff, this is what stars breathe out. They breathe out these neutrinos. There are so many of them, it is hard to imagine how many there are. This space, three trillion of them every second, three million million go through this space every second, and most of it is from the Sun. It is the breath of the Sun and we are within that breath, of that breath. It is us. I do my Joni Mitchell: We are stardust. This is us. You cannot separate us from the neutrino ocean; we are fish in this grand sea. And it is not simply something we glide through, it is something that is through us, of us, around us. It is an ocean of unprocessed data. The magic of the crystals of consciousness is that they filter this data ocean. This is us.

Personality Sun: Filter of the Neutrino Ocean When you’re looking at your Personality Sun, what it’s saying is, “I’m the filter of this ocean. And I will filter this ocean according to my uniqueness.” Over the last couple of days I have been talking to you about trust, about what it means to operate out of your own Authority. We are here to differentiate. Each and every one of us is endowed with these crystals of consciousness, but they’re not made with a cookie cutter. They’re not the same. Each one of us has the potential to filter uniquely. The moment that you can filter your Sun uniquely is the moment you begin to climb onto the mountain of your own mythology. It’s when you begin to rise up as a being. It is not a mistake that we have been Sun worshipers forever. This source of light, warmth, and life. Then you look at the Sun within your Design and the not-self ignores it, shoves it aside for some open Center, open Gate that seduces it into some delusional ride. That Sun feeds us this beauty. All we have to do is receive it. We are here to receive it, and we’re here to receive it through our Earth.

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The Earth Transforms Light into Matter Nobody talks about the Earth. Do you notice that? People talk about Mars, Jupiter, and make Neptune sexy. They talk about the Moon, the Sun; what the hell is wrong with Earth? Nobody talks about Earth. It’s sort of like, “Aha, it’s on the other side of the Sun, right?” This is where the light is transformed into matter; it’s through our Earth. This is how we stabilize ourselves. Only your Earth can catch your Sun. Nothing else can catch your Sun, only your Earth. Look at your Design. Where is your Personality Sun/Earth? Are they in something that’s defined? Are they part of a defined Center? Is that defined Center part of a continuity that leads to your Inner Authority? For most people, the answer is “no.” There are these people that will have their Sun in an open Center; that’s like living in London. Truly, the sun never shines. You run around all the time saying, “I’ve got to move. I have to get this . . . somebody please let my light out.” Then you have these people whose Suns are in a defined Center and their Earth is in an open Center. And it’s like it’s all over the place, but nothing is grounded. When you’re talking about the Personality, when the Personality is not grounded, we know what happens. The interesting thing about Human Design is that if you consider that everybody is not-self and you’re not going to be far from wrong, the moment that you look at your Design you can see all these difficulties, these problems, these challenges, all of this stuff. And then there is the person at the other end who is hearing all that who is trying to figure out how to deal with all of that. You know, the mental trip, “Ok, I have to get a hold of my sunlight.” This is not the way it works.

Human Design Is Meant to be Lived This is the real dilemma of studying Human Design because Human Design is meant to be lived. When you hear all of these things of how this thing works

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and that thing works and you look at your chart and you go, “Oh my God, I don’t have my thing over here, I have my thing over there and it should be down there, maybe,” it isn’t about that. If you follow your Strategy and Authority—I don’t mean to be redundant, but I am going to say this another two or three hundred times before the end of the week—none of those things are a problem, whether you’ve got this or that. Everybody wants to be the worst. “Oh, you should see my Design, it’s awful. Nobody has a Design like this, and I have to live with it.” If you follow your Strategy and Authority, they’re all the same. It’s like, “It’s ok, everything is all right, my life’s ok.” Nobody has to explain all of this to you, but I don’t want to tell anybody because I’ll be poor. Nobody has to explain all this to you; all you have to do is live your Design and discover it for yourself, because that’s what this is about. It isn’t about somebody else telling you the way your life is supposed to be. It’s about you living your life and discovering what it is. People are always asking me about this thing and that thing, but I’m not them. I can give you a theoretical, analytical kind of blah blah. But my thing with them is always, “Why don’t you just see this for yourself. You just have to see it for yourself.” It means you have to be watching. This is the problem.

The Mind Cannot Chill Out The mind does not know how to just cool it, chill, as my son would say. The mind has big problems chilling out. It is so involved that it can’t see anything. The most horrifying example for me—it went on for years and years when I was doing readings professionally—I would sit with a Generator who’d say, “I don’t want to do the respond number.” But it’s so simple. And I’m doing this thing with them and I’m explaining to them their Sacral voice and they’re going “Uh-huh,” and I’m saying blah blah blah, and they go, “Uh-huh,” and I’d say to them, “Do you hear it?” They look at me and say, “Hear what?” I’d say, “These sounds you were making. I’d say something and you would go ‘uh-huh,’ did you hear it?” “Hear what?”

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I used to say when you listen to the recording afterwards, the one who is making the funny sounds is you, because you don’t see. You have somebody in a reading, why did they come to a reading? It’s because they’re messed up. They come with a question, a question they hope is going to be answered, but they never tell you what it is. This is the game. “I’m messed up, I’ve got this question, please answer it for me.” So, you’re going along doing your thing, and they’re waiting for the answer. I don’t hear anything. At the end of those readings, they would always say to me, “I have a question.” And I’d say “ok.” And they would give me a question that I already answered 17 times in the reading. I’d say to them that I said this, and I said that. They’d go, “Oh.” But when your mind is ruling your life you don’t take anything in. You’re plodding, you’ve got an agenda going on. You’re trying to figure out how to do this and that, how to manipulate this and that. You’re reflecting about yesterday, you’re dreaming about tomorrow, you’re mad at somebody over here, you have a problem over there, the mind is going nuts, “What do I do?” Do you think in that moment if a true wonder is in front of you, you’re going to notice? You don’t. Here we are in the embrace of a consciousness program that is so dense that we have three trillion bits going through us, we have all this stuff going in here, and there are these not-self beings and they’re just automatons, robots, puppets. They’re not connected to what is real, to what is really possible.

We Are a Mutation This Sun above and Earth below isn’t just the Personality. It’s the Design. Everything that everybody has been taught is based on the seven centered being, the religions, the philosophies, all that stuff. We are nine centered beings; we are a mutation. It is something we have to come to grips with right away. We are a mutation.

We Are a Binary Consciousness The main part of that mutation is the fact that we can have the opportunity to grasp that we are a binary consciousness. I’m a dualist. I’m as pure dualist as I

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think a dualist can be. Everything for me is this and that because this is what it is. It is up and down, it is DNA and RNA and all those things, this is the world we live in. This is us. We are a microcosm of this great dualistic principle that drives the biverse. The microcosm is us; we are a binary consciousness. This is new in the sense that there are human beings that are actually at a point where we are ready to grasp that and to fulfill what it is. We have a planet that is nine centered that is living under seven centered propaganda. There isn’t anything in the world today that actually belongs to us. It is not something that has emerged out of something of what we are as a binary consciousness.

The Seven Centered Being and the Mind Everything about the seven centered being was mind. It’s how they went from the trees to Park Avenue—mind, mind. And everything that was plowed under in front of that movement, the blood, and the violence, and all of it was mind. You define yourself by your mind. You define your world by your mind. And in that defining you assume that mind has the power to be able to guide you in this life because it seems that’s the way it is. The not-self in the world today just lives the way our ancient ancestors lived, the killer monkeys with an agenda, killer monkeys focused on their strategic advantage, killer monkeys caught up in the Darwinistic whole rat race of life, winners and losers, haves and haves not, is all mind. And everything about living in that world is mind.

The Design Runs the Vehicle It’s not who we are. First and foremost, we have to come to grips in the binary consciousness with what those different forms of filtering really mean. When we look at the Design side, what we are looking at is literally the consciousness that is designed to run the vehicle.

The Personality Is Not Important The Personality is a secondary thing. The Personality is not important. Personalities think they are important. The not-self Personality thinks it’s really

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important. It thinks it’s so important because it controls its life. It’s not important. It’s only a hinderance, it only gets in the way, because you do not live your life here, you live it in the form. We are objects moving in space. Everything about being here on this plane is that this is where the material illusion manifests, right here. And we are part of the material illusion manifesting right here, and we don’t know anything about how it works. We certainly don’t from here, our little games of deciding “Oh, I think that would be great to do.”

We Are Designed to be Cognitive Until you can surrender to your vehicle, you can never set the platform for your consciousness; you can’t because this is the life. It’s the body. When you look at the Design Sun/Earth, you’re looking at the brain system. You’re looking at the way in which we are designed to be something very special: We are designed to be cognitive. But it begins in the form.

The Mind Is Dependent on the Form I know that mind is very attractive, but something to understand is that it’s wholly and completely dependent on the form. If you do not believe me, you can come up here, I will stick two pencils up your nose, give you a lobotomy and see how smart you are after that, because it’s the body. This whole business that somehow the mind is an independent thing; yeah. It’s like the gas is independent from the food you eat. We don’t get that. We don’t get that because we are filled with the propaganda of mind, we are stuffed with it. It’s the greatest challenge that anybody faces when they enter into this knowledge, because the problem is most of you are intelligent, which is immediately a problem. Because intelligence breeds the vanity that says, “I know what’s best for me.” You wouldn’t be here if you knew that. Your mind doesn’t know; it’s just drama.

You Can’t Live in the World Through the Mind

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The thing that bothers me about the dominance of mind is all I get to see is frightened beings. There is nothing more uncomfortable as a frequency than frightened human beings. And they don’t even know why they are afraid, on top of all of that. They’re just on edge, anxious, full of stress because they don’t know how to live in this world. You don’t live in the world through your mind; you can’t—not find your signature, not find your peace or satisfaction, your success, that surprise, the beauty of what life can be. The thing is you feel like it’s dangerous to let go. The only thing that you’ve ever been taught since you were a child was to use your head, work your way out of it, figure it out, think it over, make a decision, come on. It’s what you do to yourself. This is not the acceptance that we are binary consciousness. When I first started to show people the chart, they all said the same thing, “What’s this other thing over here?” Anybody with any kind of astrological background could figure out there is one wheel over here, “Ok, we understand that. This is birth. But what’s this other thing? What is this all about?”

Differentiated Expressions This is what we’re about. We see it deep, deep in the mechanics, it’s so obvious. But the great challenge is on the surface. It’s only when we begin to understand that this binary consciousness that we have, that they have a specific role. I’ll do a lecture later this week on true Outer Authority. This is magic, this is what we’re about. There is all of this differentiated brilliance in all of us that waits for its expression, what it means to be able to stand in your own truth, to be correct in your own truth, but it’s here, it’s the body.

Inner Authority Is Not Mind I live in the countryside and I have a long camino (road), not many cars ever travel on it. It’s a long camino until I get to the main road. I never put on my seatbelt. I drive along that camino and when I get to the main road, I put on the seatbelt.

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I’m coming out of my driveway one morning and I’m waiting for my gate to open and I see myself reach down, grab my seatbelt, and put it on. Now, I’m a Splenic Manifestor. My Authority is my Spleen, which means quite frankly that I don’t know what the hell is going on, because if your Spleen is your Authority, you never know what is going on, because it doesn’t talk to you. It makes a decision in a millisecond and if you don’t pay attention to it, it’s gone. It doesn’t even punish you in that way; it’s just nothing, just gone. So, I see myself doing this. I figure, all right. So I go driving along the camino, I get on to the main road, I’m about to turn off to go buy my morning newspaper and some old guy who didn’t quite have it together smashes into the back of my car, just whack. If I didn’t have my seatbelt on, I would have smashed my head against the windshield. I’m thinking, “My Spleen, how the hell did it know that?” We don’t know what it is to be in touch with our awareness. Most people who are Splenic always say, “I knew it.” But they always say, “I knew it,” afterwards. The head goes through the window and in the hospital, they’re going “I knew it. I just knew it. I should have put on my seatbelt.” That’s a very painful way to learn lessons. I know them, by the way, I know them really well. The problem with the Spleen is you don’t know why it’s doing that. You have no idea. It’s so different from mind. Whenever anybody finds their Inner Authority, it doesn’t matter what you are. It doesn’t matter what your Inner Authority is, it’s nothing like mind, because it’s not. And the principles upon which it operates has nothing to do with mind. It’s not like you’re going to figure it out. You can’t; it’s not even worth the trouble. What you get to see is that if you just listen to what the consciousness is that is there to run your vehicle, you get to see what things look like. You get to see what happens. You get to see that you are protected. It’s not like being superman. There are right things that go wrong. There are some very important lessons in right things that go wrong. But it’s about understanding what it means to finally have this place inside of you that you can always go to, to get what you need, the answer that is your answer, nothing else.

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You Can’t Trust the Mind You can’t trust your mind. Your mind is not you. It’s a collector of data controlled by conditioning. You take an example of this chart up here, this Projector chart. This is actually the calculation of the beginning of class today. By the way, you’re here to struggle and criticize, so I’m going to get the hell out of here as soon as this is over. And you do that to each other. It’s good to know what’s going on in the program, to keep you safe.

You take a look at this chart and you look at all that openness, chances are that this baby that just came into the world is going to live its whole life homogenized. It’s going to be inculcated in them from the moment they come into the world. And the way their mind works? When you look at that openness, you see somebody, for example, that has an open Throat. They always want to attract attention. So, you ask them if they want to go somewhere or do something, their mind thinks, “Am I going to get enough attention?”

We Are Designed to be Attracted to Conditioning

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It has nothing to do with anything; it’s not who they are. It’s what they think is missing. You’ve got all these things in your chart you think are missing. We have receptors. Oh, are we ever set up for the fall. We’ve got a biological imperative that says that we are designed to be attracted to what is different. Right away, that’s a problem. We’re designed to be attracted to conditioning. This is what tastes good. I have an undefined Sacral and undefined emotions. You can tell what my notself was attracted to. It’s just the way it works. And what you don’t have, you think, “Oh, if only I had that. How much I would like to have this.” How cruel that is with children when they are immediately set up in the comparison business. You could be better; you could be this or that. This is what goes on. This is what destroys human beings. Every single decision this child is going to make as it grows up in its life, every single one of these decisions is going to be rooted in its openness. And it’s a Projector, so there’s going to be bitterness, that’s going to be its life. It’s going to be bitter, and its partner is going to end up being conditioned by bitterness, and it’s going to be exhausted from taking in energy that isn’t correct for it. You show me any chart, I’ll show you a life that’s going to be a mess. It doesn’t matter the way we measure in the homogenized world, this illusion we have that wealth is glory. I’ve traveled so much in my process, I have sat intimately with so many human beings, it’s just a general malaise. It is what the not-self is, it penetrates every strata of life. It doesn’t pay any attention to culture, race, class, it doesn’t care. The not-self is non-discriminatory. It will take you all, squash you all, grind you out, bury you and move on. That’s what it does.

Consciousness Has No Boundaries I don’t think there is any grace out there that is waiting to protect us. I do not think existence is based on intent. I think it’s a grand act of serendipity, and I’m very pleased. But it means something else, that in a world in which there is no true creative intent, there is only the possibility of miracles. Who knows, there are no real boundaries. Nobody knows what this consciousness is capable of.

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I’ve already watched my consciousness reach out to levels I never thought was possible. It’s not like it’s anything I’m doing. It’s something that is happening. It is part of what happens to us when we become more and more correct, because we begin to tune into the essence of why we are here.

We’re Here to Express Cognitive Intelligence We’re here to express cognitive intelligence. This is what we’re here for. This is what this whole grand movement has produced. It’s a cognition formula. We see it in every blade of grass, in every insect, every bacterium. And we have the best equipment, up to date, stamped 1781, a brand-new model; a nine centered vehicle, very cool. A Uranian body. The seven centered being had a Saturnian body. A Saturnian body means you burn out fast. Do it fast; burn out fast.

We Have an Uranian Body That Saturnian body that ruled us for 80,000 to 90,000 years, children as adults, children with children, old people in their 30s, ancient people reaching 60; that’s the Saturnian body. We have an Uranian body, an upgrade. This is an 84-year cycle. It’s very different from the Saturnian vehicle. We’re not here for the short, fast run. We’re here for the long haul; hopefully without Alzheimer’s, the great seven centered disease. What we have in the world is neo-seven centered consciousness. We don’t know how to live in these bodies. We don’t know it means that in this life now that until you get into your 40s, you’re still a child. And if you want to see that for certain, look at any man before they’re 40, unless they’re dead. They don’t count; they look very mature and ripe. We have a different life. The flowering in this life is post-Kiron. You have to get to 50 before you even learn enough to be able to take advantage of what it is to be here on this plane. And we have all this seven centered pressure on everyone: Do it fast, do it right away. You have all these people at 40 who think it’s midlife crisis. It’s not midlife crisis, it’s the Uranian body kicking in and saying, “How come you think that life is over when we’re supposed to be starting now?” And there’s that person that’s hit that 40 and they’re ready to start sinking towards the end; it’s approaching.

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We Are in a Program Sun above, Earth below is a program. It’s only when you begin to grasp it, that that’s what this is. It’s why you should always follow transits, you get to see right away that we are in a program. The only possibility we have within the grips of this program is to be able to find a way to navigate uniquely. When the forces gave me this knowledge, they gave a key to get past all the mumbo jumbo, to get rid all of that seven centered spirituality that isn’t worth anything to us, to get to a place where we discover what’s in fact our divinity, if you want to use that language. We’re all in the program.

What We Talk About Is Affected by the Transits When you look out into the world, what you get to see is that everybody moves in unison to that conditioning. Watch the transits, then read the newspaper. Watch the keynotes come out, watch them talk about exactly the same things that are in the program. One of my experiments for many years was just listening to people talk and knowing what’s going on. They really think they’re talking their own stuff, the vanity of what it is to be a human being. You open your mouth, you talk, and you think it’s yours. And it’s not—it really isn’t—it’s passing through. I notice that because I’m unconscious and I never prepare, and I teach a lot. I just got through doing 105 lectures over an 11-week period. It’s interesting for me to see that in the course of the transits, I get to see that the way my muse works, the way it comes out, is affected by the transits. It just is. This is the field that we’re operating in. The moment that you begin to understand that what is going through your mind is not yours, in the sense that it doesn’t matter in terms of what you’re living. It matters in terms of what you can see. It matters in terms of where that perspective takes you in terms of the way in which you can express your Outer Authority. Let me put it to you this way. The seven centered being’s bond was based on the physical. So, people were enslaved, particularly women. Womankind was

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enslaved by the seven centered being, enslaved in the way it was bonded and contracted. Most women in the world today, as a number, are still chattel, still property.

Inner and Outer Authority Everything about the seven centered being—when you look at the world we live in and the liberal way in which we look at the world and the things we don’t like—all of those things came from the seven centered being. It came from a world that was ruled by the mind where nobody truly has an opportunity to be able to step for a moment out of the thrall of the program, to be able to do something the seven centered being couldn’t do, form a bond through consciousness. It is what we are about. We are about Outer Authority. Outer Authority is a very different thing than Inner Authority. With this binary consciousness, on one side we have Inner Authority, the Design, on the other side we have Outer Authority, that’s the Personality. They’re very different things. Your Design and Personality don’t like each other. They have no natural relationship to each other. They are held together by a mechanism that is not anything about choice. They’re held together in the illusion of separateness by the Monopole. As a matter of fact, the Personality Crystal is yanked into the vehicle, literally, corralled, swan song, hooked and pulled in. It’s only when we get to a point where we can see very clearly that on the Design side, that consciousness is supposed to take care of everything that is important to you in your life. Everything that you’ve given to your mind, you have to give to your Inner Authority, totally. Then you get the other side. What is this thing for? You get my Outer Authority. My mind never tells me what to do, it hasn’t told me what to do for over two decades. My mind is not involved in my life; it watches. And then I end up in moments like this and I hear what comes out, out of whatever it is that is my unique perspective, my variation of being a 5/1 Clarion that happens to be a Splenic Ego Manifestor, my unique slice.

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Expressing Your Unique Truth I know one thing about this unique slice, it is my truth. I don’t care if you don’t believe it; I never did. I’ve been telling people from the beginning that it’s not about trusting me. If the mechanism works for you, good for you. But the Outer Authority is a lonely place to be in a world where there isn’t somebody I want to listen to. I miss having people to listen to. I don’t care whether I agree with them or not, that’s seven centered nonsense. It’s not a competition. If you were unique, what you express is your unique truth. And because it is not false Inner Authority, because it’s not a lie and manipulated the way the mind works, it is just a very pure expression of awareness.

Bonding Rooted in Consciousness As we move further and further along in this era of mutation, the bonding that has been rooted in the form is something that needs to be replaced, will have to be replaced. It is a new bond, a bond that is rooted in consciousness. It has nothing to do with gender or sex. It has to do with truth. It’s not that I need anybody else’s truth; I don’t, I need entertainment. That’s the point. You find me interesting because it is an Outer Authority that’s clean; that’s all. But hey, I want some. That’s really interesting. I don’t know what it looks like from someplace else in the Wheel. I don’t know what it looks like through somebody else’s brown eyes. I look through my blue-gray eyes. I don’t know, what do brown eyes see? What does it look like out there for you? What do you see? I know what I see, but what do you see? If you ask anybody that question in this day and age in this life, you’re going to get a lot of crap that’s been rehashed over and over again, all the latest, hippest jargon. And you know right away the moment they open their mouth, you never should have asked them, because now you’re going to have to sit through it, and it’s not pleasant. It’s boring.

Changing the Consciousness Field We’re not here to bore each other. It’s so much fun to embrace uniqueness. I’m curious, aren’t you curious? You look at all those Incarnation Crosses, it’s

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like wow, I’d like to get them all together, really clean, clear consciousness and let’s just hear what’s going on. This is how you change the consciousness field. You change the consciousness field the moment human beings are aware. Everything about Human Design is trying to bring awareness into your life. The moment you enter into this arrangement where you’re going to allow your vehicle to just make those decisions for you, is the moment you can begin to learn what awareness is. There is no awareness until you let go and you let the vehicle do its number. Let it live its life. Watch it, because as long as you watch it—quantum is beautiful. I love quantum, I love it because it’s so crazy. It’s so silly, and yet, it’s so wonderful. And if you look at something, you change it. That’s quantum. One of those things about understanding the magic of what is possible in the consciousness when you are an observer, when you are a passenger, is what happens to you in your seeing. When you go down below the Line, it gets so specific that it’s spooky. The work that we do in PHS and Rave Psychology, the level at which you can pinpoint the potential of that consciousness of that form is unbelievable. And yet, you can’t get there unless you’re up here on the surface and you have surrendered to your vehicle, because otherwise, you’re never going to see it, because you can’t see it. It’s always right there in front of you.

PHS Every single one of us are designed to have a sensory capacity that is not only unique for us in the way it functions, but it has an acuity that is superb. We have this potential within us. It is clear within the context of PHS that when we look at the Sun/Earth in PHS, we know right away that the problem of the vehicle is food. This is how homogenization works. Most people think that homogenization is simply rooted in conditioning. But we’re talking about the body, we’re talking about that the vehicle is the life. The conditioning comes and goes, but eating, food, is what sustains you as a lifeform. Human beings are conditioned from birth, they are homogenized the moment they come into the world. And they are homogenized through the way in which they are provided nutrition.

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We can go down very deep and say, you are a unique differentiated human being. And as a unique differentiated human being, you need to eat in a certain way, because if you don’t, you’re going to be homogenized.

Many Steps in the Journey There are many steps in this journey. When I was given the knowledge it was clear to me that I could heal bodies, that I could heal bodies in a way that healing has never existed. It’s what I see in all my old friends in Design, after years and years of watching them, what it means to heal the vehicle, how it transforms the life, how it transforms the frequency. It’s a beautiful thing. But it’s only the beginning of the journey because there are other steps in that journey. There are ways in which we can enhance this process. There are ways in which we can nurture what is our true uniqueness. You cannot just jump into that, because the vast majority of human beings are so far away from that trust within themselves that opens up all the possibility, just to get them to that place.

The Need to be able to Run Your Own Life I watch the wave. We’re in a time in this knowledge where there is enormous interest, and I watch this movement. There is a frequency in the world, people are beginning to understand this is a very strange time we are in, and it is only going to get stranger. It is not about who is going to be there to hold your hand. I warn you, truly, like a prophet I tell you that the future is about your ability to run your own life absolutely, and to make sure that your children can run their own lives absolutely. And that their children can do the same, because otherwise, they are going to have a horrendous time, because the Wheel is turning. It’s about bowing down to the form.

Human Design Is Not Spiritual When I started here on the Island, it was in the middle of the big boom in the mystical, the spiritual journey, people going to India, and all of this stuff. When I think about things like that, it just shows how different this knowledge is.

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Mechanics is an amazing thing. This knowledge has never been spiritual for me. I don’t understand that kind of vanity, the vanity that pursues spiritualty. It seems quite mad to me. How can you be spiritual until you can live in this plane correctly? How is that possible? I know that people can repeat mantras. I know how easy it is for human beings to be propagandized. But there is a vanity to assume that one can pursue spirituality when one cannot live correctly on this plane. In my early days in Ibiza, I preferred to be with illiterate, poverty stricken locals sitting and staring at sheep, because at least there was no bullshit. And they knew how to be in the world. I had a neighbor of mine, Antonio, and it used to fascinate me that every time the Moon was full, he would run his pump and bring the water up from the ground. I thought here he is in the natural order, totally aligned to the Moon, and all of this. And there I am, running along in my head trip. He comes over a couple of days later and we’re chatting. I said to him, “Tony, that’s really great. Every time the Moon is full, you pump water.” He said, “See? Yeah, really?” He had no idea. Either that or he was really pulling my leg.

We Have Lost Our Connection to Life We long ago lost our connection to life. It’s so artificial through the mind. It’s only when your body starts making decisions for you that you begin to sink into the grounding, that it brings you deep into this Maia. We’re not here to run away. I’m not a Buddhist; I’m not ready to run away. I don’t want to leave the form, I don’t want to get the hell out of here. I know what’s out of here; nothing. This is the movie. So, you can have a good movie, or you can have a lousy movie. You have an opportunity to have your movie, nobody else’s. We’re not here to be sheep. Nine centered beings are not sheep, we are not followers. We are here to learn, to take advantage of our knowledge, move on and find our truth, the uniqueness of that expression. ∆

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Part 2 The Nodes Let’s continue our journey in looking at the components of The Cross of Life. I want to switch to the Nodes, because the Nodes are—in all my journeys in the knowledge, I think that where I’ve come to finally is that I’ve become a great fan of the Nodes. I don’t know any other way to put that. I find them to be so remarkable. They’re very different from the Sun/Earth. When we’re dealing with the Sun/Earth, we’re dealing with direct programming. We’re dealing with the programming of the Sun and we’re dealing with the intrinsic relationship between the Sun/Earth. When we see the Sun/Earth on the Personality side, we’re looking at the way in which the mind develops its style. That is, the way in which the mind is going to present itself. When we’re looking at the Design side of the Sun/Earth, we’re looking at the brain system itself and the way the brain system is going to function, and which cognition is going to be the key to the success of that brain system. It also leads to an understanding that each of us has a right to unique nutrition. And that ultimately, unique nutrition is one of the ingredients in the overall process of transformation in the life.

Nodes Are Positions But when we come to the Nodes, if you look at all the elements that are there in the calculation in Design, everything is an object except the Nodes. They are not objects; they are positions. Basically, I like to look at them as windows. They’re windows that let in the neutrino information that exists that literally comes from every star in the sky, that enormous ocean of information that flows through. It is our continuity that is beyond this solar frame. It’s our continuity that is the totality to everything. It’s interesting that the Nodes basically move in a retrograde motion. Of course, the only other thing we have in Design that moves in a retrograde

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motion is the precession of the equinox, the way in which we chart global cycles. The Nodes connect us to this special movement, they connect us to the larger cycles, the larger frames of life.

The Nodes Represent Our Journey on this Plane But more than that, the Nodes represent, in essence, our journey on this plane. And the journey, after all, truly, is everything. Everything about the Nodes points to what is possible for us on this journey. It lays the foundation for everything that seems to be important for us: The nature of our lives, the quality of our interaction with others, the perspective that we have that opens up the possibility for uniqueness of our Outer Authority. It really begins with the Design Nodes; everything begins with the Design. Always remember that when you experiment with your Strategy and Authority, you are aligning your Design to what is correct. It takes seven years to decondition. But that deconditioning in and of itself is not an answer; it is a process. And there is much more that can be done.

The Design Nodes: Specific Environments I mentioned earlier about our new bodies, these Uranian bodies that are here to live much longer. There is a dilemma in that because all bio-forms suffer from wear and tear. One of the things that I try to teach in the nature of Strategy and Authority is understanding that decision making is navigating: It’s the way in which we move on this plane. When you’re navigating out of your Inner Authority, when you’re navigating out of the vehicle, what happens is that your vehicle starts pointing you toward specific environments. This is the Design Nodes. They’re the kind of thing that Ponce de Leon went chasing after. It’s the fountain of youth. It’s the glory of the possibility of the vitality of these forms. We all know something is different. My father at my age—I’m about to turn 60—was already an old man. He was living out the Saturnian dream. I’m living in a Uranian world. It’s clear to me that these vehicles are designed to live longer, to be vital longer.

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We’re not designed to be deteriorating at the same age as the old Saturnian vehicle, falling apart in one’s 50s and 60s, and immediately sliding off the edge. We have vehicles that are here for the long run. But to understand that is much more than simply Strategy and Authority, to understand that if the vehicles are truly going to be healthy for the long run, they have to be nourished properly and they have to be in the right place. There was once a natural order; truly, long ago. There was a natural order in the time of the Neanderthal, the last fully ripe being, the last of the five centered beings. The moment that we entered into the seven centered domain, when we entered into what we call homo Sapiens, we moved away from the natural order.

Lao Tzu Not too long ago in my Mystic Monologue program in the IHDS, I did a lecture on Lao Tzu. What was so interesting for me about Lao Tzu was that he got it really early, thousands of years ago. He figured out what the seven centered being was, where it was going, and he didn’t like it at all. He thought it was horrible what was happening. He wanted everybody to go back to the natural order. But that’s not the way the Wheel was turning. The Wheel was turning to give power to the seven centered being and give power to mind. We see the result of all of that now. But in giving that power to mind, we lost our place in the world. Not only are we here to express our differentiated uniqueness, but we are here to be nourished in a differentiated manner. And ideally, we are here to live in a specific environment. Again, part of the knowledge of PHS is to be very, very specific about what exact environment is correct for you, and why. The Nodes are something very interesting. If you think about the Sun/Earth, it’s always me, me, me; that’s the Sun/Earth. If it’s sophisticated and it’s got a big ego it’s, I, I, I. But nonetheless, me, me, me, or I, I, I is all the same thing.

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When you look at the Nodes, what the Design Nodes says is something very bizarre. It says until you’re 30 years of age, it doesn’t matter where you are. So, for example, a child that comes into the world, we can look at their PHS, we can go deep down into what is called the PHS External, which has to do with the Nodes. We can look at what their environment is. We can look at all of that, but it only matters once they’re 30. That Sun/Earth in its selfishness—me, me, me, or I, I, I—on the other side of that are the Nodes that say, them, them, them, because without the Nodes there is no life. When I started my career, I was stuck with the Sun/Earth trip: I, I, I, the Profile, all of that stuff that seems to be the person. But it’s only the person when the person is in space movement and in relationship to the other.

The Nodes Move Us Towards the Other Everything about the Nodes is that it’s always moving us, and it’s moving us towards the other. We cannot be here without the other, and that means that we cannot be here without meeting conditioning in our lives. One of the things about being an object moving in space is that you build up resistance as you move in space. With any object moving in space there is this resistance. One of the things to understand about Strategy and Authority is it’s intended to eliminate the resistance, but the perfection of that is to be in exactly the right place.

Environment Can Save Your Life We all have a right place, and those places vary. One of the most astonishing things about the PHS Node, the External, is that in times of emergency knowing your place can save your life. I’ll give you an example. One of the environments—this is just a generic term because there are all kinds of nuances—is called Mountains. Those beings who have that as their particular Node, their PHS Node, high altitude is something that is very important for them.

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As a matter of fact, it has a lot to do with oxygen, diminishing the amount of oxygen. It’s very important for them, in terms of their well-being, that they’re not low down in a position where they’re living under heavy pressure. They’re intended to be high up, in a thinner atmosphere. They’re intended to have a different view, a different perspective. Think about a child that has Mountain as an environment and they get really sick. You take them to the top floor of the house. If you take them to the top floor of the house, they’re going to heal faster than if you leave them on the bottom floor. As a matter of fact, it can save their life. You take them to high ground, because that’s the environment that nurtures the perfected vitality that is there in the being.

Quality of Environment We all have a unique place on this plane and it’s not place in the way you think. It’s not about saying it’s there in Poland. It isn’t about that; it’s about quality of environment. It is about specific quality of environment. As a matter of fact, they’re divided up into hardscapes and landscapes. Some people are hardscape people, some people are landscape people. I’m Shores. Here I am living in Ibiza. I’ve lived on islands almost all my life, and Shores are my environment. Sometimes you get lucky. The whole thing about being us is that everything is very specific for us because we actually have a plan, you can see it. There is a program that I teach which is called Variable: It is a way of combining The Cross of Life of the Personality and The Cross of Life of the Design. There are 16 variations, and it is the map of the actual order. It’s astonishing the way in which it is intended to be laid out in order so that the consciousness field operates to its perfection. This isn’t just a question of mechanically, you open up a doorway by following your Strategy and Authority. If all I ever wanted to do in this life was heal bodies, I could have quit years ago, because healing bodies through Human Design is the easiest thing in the world: for example, respond. That’s an easy thing.

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Awakening Is a Mechanical Process But to awaken someone—one thing I understand about nine centered knowledge is that it was given to me so that the complete being could be transformed. For me, to awaken is not something that is spiritual. It is something that is mechanical, it is a mechanical process. It is clear to me in the knowledge that I have that step by step it is possible for a human being to awaken, to awaken in terms of their Personality consciousness. The Nodes are a key, because if you’re not in the right place it is going to be difficult—the Nodes have an extraordinary relationship to each other, a relationship that is so fascinating. Within the Nodes we have things that are called Link Nodes. I will talk about this later in the week. The way in which the Nodes align to each other through the Monopole, how it’s through the agency of the Nodes in relationship to the Monopole that not only are we held together, but this is how we move along. The moment that your Design is in the right place with the right trajectory, your Personality begins to see what it’s intended to see.

The Personality Node: Perspective Your Personality Node is about your perspective. I began talking today about polarities, and polarities are fun. Let’s stage a car accident, none of you have to be involved. We’ll line up the 32 variations of Nodal polarities, all along the street where the car accident is going to take place. So, you have the 32 variations of the way in which human beings can see. Then you stage the accident in front of all of them, then you interview them as to what they saw. They all saw something different. It’s the same event, right in front of them, they all saw it differently. This is what your Personality Nodes do: They frame the way in which your mind looks at the world. It is the way your mind gets its reference points. It gets its reference points from your Personality Nodes. They do not work independently, and if you’re not correct, you do not see correctly, period.

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If you were not correct, you would not be able to align yourself to the trajectory that is correct for you so that you can have the perception that is there for you; and without that perception, there is no true Outer Authority.

True Outer Authority: A Unique Perception Not only are we here to express our uniqueness as beings, but we’re also here to express our uniqueness in terms of perception. This is what I meant about the entertainment of other people’s Outer Authority. It’s interesting because they have a unique perspective. Of course, we are very different. Some of us look at the world through the Right, and the world is huge and full of endless detail. Some of us look at the world through what is Left, and we see these fine lines of the way in which things work, focused down to its core. We all look and see different things. Yet, when you talk to people and they talk about their experience of life, oh, is it boring, because they were never seeing the way they were intended to see. They never got to experience the experience they were intended to have. They weren’t in the right place; they didn’t see it correctly. And then their mind rambles on, and it’s not interesting. So, we’re here to develop sources of truth. The only thing that keeps me working in what I do now after all these years, is the fact that I see so clearly that mechanically, you can awaken human beings. In September we’re going to open up the Center for Human Differentiation to offer advanced training programs. It’s one of the most exciting things in my work, because I’ve spent all this time as a messenger just simply trying to get the message across: Respond. But once somebody enters into their Strategy and Authority, boy are they alone. And there is so much that can be done for them. For three years in the programs involved, at the deepest level that we have ever gone in Design, to be able to provide the infrastructure that’s there to offer the guidance to anyone entering into this process, who wants to go all the way in this process. Because this is where the magic is. This is what I’m waiting for.

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I’ve already lived long enough to see healed bodies; I see them all around me. That’s clear. I see how the pressure has left people’s lives. I see the ease that’s there. It’s nice, but it’s not enough. Oh, I’m really pleased you’ve gotten that far, good for you. I’ll give you a 30-second cookie, and after that there is still work to be done. It’s the mind, it’s just the mind.

The Body Knows What to Do I took so many drugs in my life that I know what happens when mind doesn’t function anymore. The body does. In the early years in Ibiza, I used to drive my car on LSD. If you drive an automobile on LSD you cannot think about driving, because if you think about driving, you die. It’s just like that. The moment you try to think about how to shift the gear, your life is over. Then you discover something incredible. It doesn’t have to be my exotic drug life; it could be that you’re just dead drunk. Mind you, I’d rather be on acid going home than dead drunk, but, nonetheless. What you discover is that your body knows what to do. I was always very grateful that my body took over, got me there, bless its little heart. It’s in those moments that you realize there is this huge separation between these two things. I’ve been in experiences where there is no body, very weird, absolutely no body. And then when it ends and you come back into the body it’s like, “Wow, I live in this, this meat box?” You get out of the meat box and everything is so fast. You come into the box and it’s (sound), it’s like everything is in slow motion, and it’s the box that controls everything. If you have a lousy dinner, your mind doesn’t work well. It controls everything; it is the life. This is what the forces taught me: Forget all that spiritual mind crap, get down into the body, baby. This is where it is.

Every Design Is Perfect It’s so beautiful when you look deep enough. It’s all laid out, everybody’s Design is absolute perfection. And you don’t have to do anything; it’s not like you have to figure out how all of that works. You get to realize the perfection by living it.

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One of the problems is that there is this assumption of how you’re going to live it is going to be the same as somebody sitting beside you. Forget that, that’s not what we’re about. If I needed that I would have been a Baptist minister. The thing that fascinates me so much about people is I honestly don’t know what’s there. It has taken away all my prejudice because I cannot be upset with them as not-self. I cannot; I’ve given up on that. I’ve given up with the not-self and having a complaint. I have no complaints. I wish them well. It’s their world; they’re normal, they can have it. But each and every one of us is not here to play by anybody’s rules. This is the thing. There is all this expectation about what it’s going to be like. There are many people here who I can remember what I said to them the first time: It will take seven years. And they said, “What’s it going to be like?” And I said, “I don’t know. It’s your seven years, not mine. I have no idea what it’s like. I know what mine’s like. That’s what makes it interesting.” And then to hear the comments when they get there, it’s such a funny movie.

The Body Is Your Temple The moment that you settle into these things and you see them for what they are, they’re a temple. This is the place that you worship. This is everything. If you treat it correctly, if you respect it, if you feed it correctly, it’s going to reward you. It’s going to give you what is correct for you. But that mind? I know a lot about many teachers going back a long, long time. They all had some kind of understanding that an act of surrender was necessary. What precisely it was, they weren’t very clear, because they didn’t really know how it worked. I know what surrender is. It’s not spiritual. The first thing to understand about this word—to surrender—to surrender is not a spiritual act. It’s an act of intelligence.

Our Lives Are Choiceless When I began teaching, I used to tell people that there is no choice. And they got really pissed because they didn’t like that. Our lives are choiceless if we allow them to be, this is the beauty of these vehicles. We are not here to decide for them. We are to be helpless and incompetent within the ride.

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Mind Is Not for Decision Making As a matter of fact, the less we think we can control this, the better it is, so that it can just be. And it’s not that you turn off your mind, it’s not no-mind, it’s not some kind of technique to try to quiet your mind. This is not about suppressing anything. It’s simply about understanding that mind is not allowed to decide, that’s all. Mind can think; mind can bitch; mind can do what mind does. But it cannot decide. Don’t let it decide. It’s the only challenge you have. You master that, you master this life. It’s that simple. And you know how difficult it is. Everything around you conditions you to mind, mind, mind. You’re already thinking, “How can I do that? How can I get there?” By Strategy and Authority—thank you very much—is how you get there. It says that you have a consciousness that is only for running your life. It’s going to decide who to make love to, who to be friendly with, who to care about, what to do, when to do it, where to do it, how to do it. Your mind doesn’t do anything.

Do Without Doing I love this quote from Lao Tzu: Do without doing and everything gets done. I have heard so many spiritual people mutter that, and they didn’t know what the hell it meant. This is what this life is. I don’t do anything. I’m always amazed I’m here. All of a sudden, there I am, and there you are. It’s like, ok. I don’t know how any of this goes on. I don’t care anymore; I just watch the vehicle. I watch my life, I watch what passes through. I watch what happens to me. That’s all my mind does. As a matter of fact, because I’m not judgmental, it doesn’t even make any kind of comment anymore. It just processes it; whatever that is. The only time I know that something is going on is when I’m teaching and somehow it comes back out. And it’s only now that I get to live my mythology, that I get to live what it is to be this kind of Clarion. That I didn’t have to construct it, chase after it, yearn for it, suffer for it. It’s just what happens. It’s only when your mind is surrendered to not being your Authority that it becomes your ally, that it becomes your gift. The moment you separate

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yourself from the decision-making process, that you allow your vehicle to take over, you don’t have anything to do. Your whole lives are based on your minds; everything about it. And your mind is used to doing certain things: Controlling your life. That’s what it’s used to. It’s used to telling you what to do, it’s used to you obeying. The moment you let go of that, the moment that you surrender to your vehicle, you have to give your mind something to do.

The Passenger Has to be Trained I’ve learned something about the passenger: It is ready to learn, it’s what it’s there for. It has to be taught, the passenger has to be trained. We have a technique in Rave Psychology to begin the training of the mind, the training of the true mind. It’s called Color Transference Recognition: To train the mind to observe, to train the mind to watch. Because the moment the mind starts watching instead of trying to act, the life changes. And your intelligence begins to change, and the potential in you to be truly of value to the other in what you can communicate changes. We have this great gift of being able to communicate to each other at a deeply, deeply sophisticated level. But because most human beings are not-self, which means they have their mind being both Inner and Outer Authority, that all dialogue, all conversations are rooted in lies, the lies necessary for the mind to protect itself and to maintain its security; the half-truths you share with somebody, the manipulated descriptions that you give out in order to protect things you want to keep hidden because you don’t think it’s a good idea to mention it, and so forth and so on.

The Mind Is Here to Watch and Filter The mind is here to watch, it’s here to filter. And there are those moments, those encounters, those meetings where a bond can be formed through conscious, honest communication. One of the things that I love most about this knowledge and the people that I know are deeply in this knowledge, is that you can be very straightforward. You see human beings for what they are, you accept them for what they are. They accept you for what you are.

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It is the beginning of honest relationships. It doesn’t mean you have to like everybody; I don’t. It’s not what life is. Love thy neighbor was seven centered propaganda. This is not what we are about. But we are about acceptance, acceptance without prejudice, just plain acceptance. Every human being has their Design.

A Journey of Decades What we get to see amongst those that experiment is we begin to actually get to see them, get to meet them, begin to feel what it is for them to be in their place in this process. One of the most fascinating subjects that very few people hear about in Design is the journey that so many have taken now. And it’s not a journey of weeks and months, but a journey of a decade or more. It is an extraordinary thing. This is the great wonder that is here for us. Yes, you need to be patient. It takes seven years to decondition as an adult. It means you get born then. You’ve got to be patient and you have to be disciplined because it takes courage to stand alone. No matter how much you’re ready to see it as being the thing, there is all this pressure in the world we live in, it’s all there. The not-self is all around us. It’s why this is about being a wolf. You have to have the power to care for yourself, to love yourself, to sacrifice for yourself, whatever that takes. You’re not going to get another chance. You don’t want to die not having done this, because you’ll know when you go out the door and you don’t want to go out that way. You don’t have to. If you get this close it’s just the simple: Strategy and Authority. ∆

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